{"id":135506,"date":"2022-01-17T04:33:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=135506"},"modified":"2022-01-17T04:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:33:09","slug":"we-were-saints-compared-to-todays-level-of-corruption-babangida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/we-were-saints-compared-to-todays-level-of-corruption-babangida\/","title":{"rendered":"We were saints compared to today\u2019s level of corruption &#8211; Babangida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, (rtd) has said they were saints during his military regime compared to the current level of corruption in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/08\/06\/babangida-attacks-buhari-says-i-fought-corruption-better-than-current-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Babangida<\/a>, who was Head of State from 1985-1993 stated this during an interview with Trust TV.<\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old said, \u201cI sacked a governor for misappropriating N300,000. Now there are people \u2014 we read in the papers, thank God there are papers to read and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/13\/twitter-buhari-faces-court-action-after-lifting-ban-on-social-media-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> and so on\u2014 who steal N2 billion, N3 billion and nobody is saying they are corrupt; only us because we are military, that is all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still maintain that we are saints if you compare somebody who is accused of stealing N3 billion to one with N300,000; then I think we are saints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On why the battle against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/13\/corruption-has-hurt-nigerias-image-abroad-says-fg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corruption<\/a> was so difficult, he said: \u201cI sold an idea but because it came from me, nobody likes it, nobody will like to hear it:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdentify areas of corruption and attack them from the source. I read in one of the newspapers where a judge was complaining that they are not well remunerated by the public and that is a sure source of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWherever you have a system where you have a lot of control there will be corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what did we try to do? We got government not to be involved in things like production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything to do with \u2018I have to come to you and you will always think you are doing me a favour, so maybe I should reciprocate it\u2019; that is the sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that is why we introduced freeing the economy; you don\u2019t need a licence to be graded Grade A; your groundnut or cocoa or cotton or whatever it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t need to go to the Central Bank or to go to banks to get foreign exchange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are Bureaux de Change. They set it up in market areas, where you can easily go and get it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the sources of corruption has to be identified and attacked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minna-born General recalled that his economic policy of liberalisation and government stepping back from the economy were emulated by Yar\u2019Adua and Obasanjo.<\/p>\n<p>He said they did and the current regime was also doing it even though in a different name, \u201cbut it is all the same concept,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, (rtd) has said they were saints during his military regime compared to the current level of corruption in the country. Babangida, who was Head of State from 1985-1993 stated this during an interview with Trust TV. The 80-year-old said, \u201cI sacked a governor for misappropriating N300,000. 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